For the past year I haven't listened to any "new" music. That startling conclusion started to dawn on me during the closing r...

There is an experiment I am going to try during Sunday worship for the next six weeks:   two spoken reflections separated by silence and...

Today is Pentecost in the Western Christian tradition: at one point during the Eucharistic Prayer I looked out of the corner of my eye and...

There is a unique charism to cleaning the bathroom, scrubbing the floor and making the house look hospitable. This is not a unique insig...

This Sunday, the Feast of Pentecost, we are experimenting with another participatory and sensory worship celebration .  There are two candle...

So this will sound like a tape loop to some, but here goes from a headline at Sojourner's Magazine entitled, "A Crucial Ingredien...

For some unknown reason I am in a piano jazz blues kind of place today - not melancholia, mind you - just something low down and gritty. It ...

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about discerning, watching and waiting rather than rushing forward into action half-cocked:  Parker...

Today I put away most of my worship notes and simply spoke about the Sabbath connection and Ascension Sunday:  wait for power from on hi...

As this campaign season has evolved - or degenerated depending upon your perspective - I have regularly been awed by the rise of "true ...

Twenty one years ago tomorrow, Dianne and I were wed. It was a very small ceremony with three friends and our two daughters in attendance. I...